Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-nine years and 21 solo albums later, McCartney is still enjoying the fun of it -- and provoking those female screams of adoration. MTV's 90-minute concert special, which airs this Wednesday, goes out of its way to tap memories of Beatlemania by letting the studio audience crush against the stage and switching between color and black-and-white camera work. For his part, McCartney uses the occasion to preview an upcoming world tour and offer a potent mix of Beatles hits and other songs from his new album, Off the Ground (Capitol Records), to be released next week...
...MATTER WHAT SORT OF SLEAZE his ex has dished out in her nasty new bio, DAVID BOWIE is a blissfully conventional one-woman man today. In fact his happy marriage to the stunning Iman has inspired much of the material on his upcoming solo album, his first in six years. Just recorded, Bowie says it "will examine the twists and turns of companionship." He adds, "All my albums start out bleak and veer toward the depressing. This one will let the sun shine through." Sunshine, yes, and a little sax playing from Major...
...toting gangster. Although he may play a criminal in movies and in his music, it's a front. Not that he doesn't have an ugly, heavy-metal misogynistic side that he really ought to jettison. But he does show indications of an underlying humanism. On his first solo album in 1990, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, he brought in female rapper Yo-Yo to counterbalance his sexist views. On one track on The Predator, he says, "I do want the white community to understand." On another he fantasizes about a perfect day during which "nobody I know got killed...
...worst comes first. A medley all too aptly titled Schtick is stale, botched Broadway, except for a fleeting, funny solo for Baryshnikov composed of stock classical-ballet flourishes. This kind of parody is familiar, but Tharp wisely keeps it light and witty. The heart of the evening is a suite for the two stars set to Pergolesi -- dreamy, deeply musical, full of surprising yet harmonious moves. In a zippy finale, the stars cavort, and six fine young backup dancers finally get to strut some very flashy stuff...
...student-run organization, it was very well-connected. Not only were members of the Society able to borrow works from collections like that of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, members were "even friendly with the artists themselves," Dreifus says. "For example, Alexander Calder, the wire sculptor, had a solo exhibition for the Harvard Society. They invited him to Harvard to construct everything here and exhibit it. And he stayed with Eddie Warburg, who was one of the men in the society. He stayed in his room in Holworthy and...constructed everything there...